Eight bandits feared dead by own explosion device planted for troops

At slightest 8 suspected bandits person been killed by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) believed to person been planted for information forces on Lukope Road successful Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State.

A counter-insurgency and information adept successful the Lake Chad region, Zagazola Makama, made this known successful a station connected X connected Saturday.

Makama said that the incidental occurred astatine astir 8:30 p.m. connected March 20 on the Kurebe–Kushaka axis, a known corridor for equipped groups operating wrong the wood belt.

He noted that the IED, suspected to person been emplaced by the bandits to people advancing troops, detonated erstwhile members of the radical inadvertently rode implicit it portion moving connected motorcycles.

“The detonation occurred arsenic the bandits were transiting the route, starring to the instant decease of astir 8 of them and the wounded of respective others,” the root said.

According to the source, the bandits were believed to beryllium loyalists of notorious bandit person Dogo Gide and were reportedly heading towards the Lukope area.

It added that troops of Operation Fansan Yamma, Sector 1, were said to person responded swiftly to the country and intensified patrols to forestall immoderate further information breaches.

The incidental has, however, heightened hostility among residents of Kushaka, Kurebe, Gbato, and neighbouring communities implicit fears of imaginable reprisal attacks.